Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: New extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

Ecography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-175

  Phillips, Steven J ^a   Dudík, Miroslav ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY;

EID: 41449100102     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.5203.x     Document Type: Article

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